For property holders · Host model

Your apartment is already working. Just not for you.

You're paying for a place you're not always in. Rota turns that gap into a rotation — trusted people, managed continuity, no landlord friction. You keep the keys. We keep it full.

4–8
months the average
plural-life apartment
sits underused
0
strangers.
every member
is vetted by us
1
conversation
to start.
no commitment

A full lease priced for permanence, occupied a third of the year.

You're not absent because you don't love the place. You're absent because your life is plural — another city, another project, another season. The apartment waits. The rent doesn't.

The usual options — sublet, Airbnb, leave it empty — all ask you to choose between income and continuity. Airbnb burns the neighbours. Subletting burns trust. Empty costs you everything.

Rota is a different category. Not hospitality. Not subletting. A rotation of people who treat your home like a home, because for them, it is one.

You hold a space you're not always in.

Profile 01

The split-city person

New York lease, Lisbon rhythm. You're here four months and somewhere else the rest. The apartment is real. The empty months are expensive.

Profile 02

The second-home owner

A place that should feel alive. You don't want tenants and you don't want tourists. You want people who take care of things because they're invested, not transient.

Profile 03

The spare-room holder

One room you'd let to the right person — not a stranger from the internet, but someone inside a network you trust. Rota is that network.

Occupancy without the overhead.

Revenue model
Revenue share on occupied days, or offset against your own Rota membership — your choice at setup.
Who stays
Vetted Rota members only. Every person in the rotation has skin in the game — they hold days in the network too.
Stewardship
A steward member is always assigned for continuity. Keys, handovers, small maintenance — handled before it becomes a call to you.
Your calendar
Your dates are locked first. Block your weeks before anything opens to the rotation. You're never displaced by your own space.
Legal layer
Rota holds the occupancy agreement with members. You keep your lease relationship clean. We absorb the coordination layer.
Exit terms
90 days' notice to close the rotation. No long-term platform lock-in. Your apartment, your decision, always.
Host model · economics
Stop paying for empty days.

This is the managed version. If you already know the three or four people who would take your empty months, you don't need us in the middle — the shared lease model runs the same arrangement yourself. Both price from what the place costs you: the lease model at +10% and +20%, this one capped at +25%. What you get here is not having to find them.

The shared lease model →

You are not a landlord.

Screen strangers from the internet
Manage check-ins, check-outs, or cleaning logistics
Handle maintenance calls while you're in another timezone
Deal with platform reviews, neighbour complaints, or disputes
Fill calendar gaps manually or chase late payments
Worry about who's sleeping in your bed

One conversation. Then we build the rotation.

01

We talk

Thirty minutes. You describe the space, your rhythm, your non-negotiables. No pitch deck, no form to fill. Just a real conversation about whether this fits.

02

We map your calendar

Your dates locked first. Then we model the rotation around the gaps — who holds what, for how long, at what terms.

03

We match your first members

From the existing Rota network, or from your own trusted circle. You approve everyone before a key is handed over.

04

The rotation runs

A steward holds continuity. You get a monthly digest — occupancy, revenue, any notes. Your inbox stays quiet.

See what your rotation actually looks like.

A space can be offered two ways, the same two the members' side runs on. Pick the one that matches how your place is shaped.

The space
$ / month
$ / month
The gap
your dates locked first
% of offered days sold
$ / night
How you take it

No commitment · We review within 3 days